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Lindsay Peoples Wagner
Editor in chief
Thanks to decades of misogyny the term "women’s magazine" has far too often been associated with fluff. But no one could ever truthfully say that about The Cut or Teen Vogue--not when they’ve been powered by the creative genius that is Lindsay Peoples Wagner. Wagner continued to stunt on the competition in 2022 by not only marking the 10th anniversary of Trayvon Martin's death with a seminal cover package of stories that pulled no punches, but also by utilizing the platform to offer a state-by-state guide to abortion services just as Roe v. Wade was on the cusp of being overturned. The headline was--and forever will be--legendary: "This Magazine Can Help You Get an Abortion." At the time, Wagner was quoted in WWD as saying, “There’s no point if we’re not actually moving things forward. At The Cut, I really wanted to pursue ambitious journalism, what we were calling our own sense of fearless usefulness, in order to be something that people really needed."